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A bolter from the Republican party in the national election of 1884; an Independent. [Political Cant, U.S.]

The fault of improperly uniting in one bill distinct and independent matters, and thereby confounding them. Burrill.

Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles. "The muscular motion." Arbuthnot.

science of harmonical tones which treats of the principles of harmony, or the properties, dependences, and relations of tones to each other; the art of combining tones in a manner to please the ear.

The doctrine of mutual dependence as the condition of individual and social welfare. F. Harrison. H. Spencer. Mallock.

The quality of correlation; reciprocation; interchange; interaction; interdependence.

The body of inhabitants of a country, united under an independent government of their own. A nation is the unity of a people. Coleridge. Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation. F. S. Key.

National independence; the principles of the Nationalists.

One who advocates national unity and independence; one of a party favoring Irish independence.

The doctrine of innate ideas, or that the mind possesses forms of thought independent of sensation.

A structure, part, or organ developed independently, that is, not derived from a similar structure, part, or organ, in a pre existing form.

nds to its ramifications, and seems therefore to be seated in the nerve. It seems to be independent of any structural lesion. Dunglison.

A condition of nervous debility supposed to be dependent upon impairment in the functions of the spinal cord.

A process, now no longer used, invented by J. N. Niepce, a French chemist, in 1829. It depends upon the action of light in rendering a thin layer of bitumen, with which the plate is coated, insoluble.

Relating to, or dependent on, the number nine; novenary. [R.] The triple and novene division ran throughout. Milman.

or testament made by word of mouth only, before witnesses, as by a soldier or seaman, and depending on oral testimony for proof. Blackstone.

imes, also, in Reid. Subjective is used by William of Occam to denote that which exists independent of mind; objective, what is formed by the mind. This shows what is meant by realitas objectiva in Descartes. Kant and Fichte have inverted the meanings. Subject, with them, is the mind which knows; object, that which is…

Depending on, or perceived by, the eye; received by actual sight; personally seeing or having seen; as, ocular proof. Shak. Thomas was an ocular witness of Christ's death. South.

A member of a secret order, or fraternity, styled the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, established for mutual aid and social enjoyment.

Indicating dependence or reliance; with confidence in; as, to depend on a person for assistance; to rely on; hence, indicating the ground or support of anything; as, he will promise on certain conditions; to bet on a horse.